US286392A

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Publication number: US286392A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1883-10-09
Anticipated expiration: 1900-10-09

Description

(11,) 0 e F. M. GOMSTOGK & G. Q. ADAMS.

FENCE PIGKET.

Patented 00's.. 9 1883.

Nrrnn STATES PATENT FFICE. A

FRANCIS M. OOMSTOCK AND GEORGE ADAMS, OF KEOKUK, IOWA.

F ENCE- -PICKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 286,392, dated October 9, 1883.

Applicaiicn filed May 24, 1883. (No model.)

To alt whom it may concern:

Be itknown that we, FRANCIS M. COMSTOOK and GEORGE Q. ADAMs, citizens of the United States, residing at Keokuk, in the county of Lee and State of Iowa, have invented certain greatest amount of strength with a minimum amount of weight of metal, and which can be readily secured to the horizontal wires of the fence, as more fully hereinafter specified. This object we attain by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in

which- Figure 1 represents an elevation of our improved picket, showing the means of attaching it to the horizontal wires of the fence; and Fig.

2 represents a similar view of a modification of our improved picket.

The letter A indicates our improved picket, which may be constructed of rolled metal, or of rollehpressed, or dropped sheet metal. The picket is triangular, or approximately thereto. in cross-section, and when rolled direct is so formed that the edges will be of sufficient thickness to impart the proper strength, the sides being thinned toward the angle, so as to reduce weight and to save metal. The edges of the pickets are beaded also, as indicated, to provide additional strength, and the said vertical edges are indented at suitable et is formed with alongitudinal corrugated portion indented at suitable points, for the purposes above described. YVhen thus con structed, the picket may be formed of sheet metal, and shaped either by the process of ro1ling', dropping, or pressing, as may prove convenient.

When the picket is constructed of sheet metal, the edges are turned and wired, in the manner well known to workers in sheet metal, in order to strengthen the article.

It will be seen that as thus constructed the pickets may be made sufficiently light to be utilized for the intended purposes, and at the same time will possess the requisite strength, and are in condition to be secured to the horizontal wires of the fence by the bi nding-wire, without additional manipulation, by any one accustomed to the construction of such fences.

The picket described and claimed in the present application, in connection with other devices, forms the subject-matter of another application filed by us of even date herewith, No. 96,07 6, for improvements in fences, in which was claimed, in combination with the picket, certain devices for fastening the pickets together to form the fence, and we therefore in the present application disclaim such fastening devices.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A metallic fence-picket having a longitudinal ridge and headed edges, and provided with recesses for the fence-wires at the edges, and with recesses on the central ridge for the hinding-wire, substai'itially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

runners M. coMsrocK. anon-en o. ADAMS.

W itnesses:

XVELLs M; IRWIN, J. E. J EwELL.